Imagine you owe the state of North Carolina a couple thousand bucks in taxes, but because of the current state of the Obama bear economy you decide you need that money for your family. So you put out a press release saying, “Dear North Carolina, because of my cash flow here at home, don’t expect my tax check for a while. I’ll get to it when I can.” Yeah, that would work.
But that’s what the state is telling taxpayers to whom it owes millions:
Dwindling revenue and a widening budget shortfall mean that North Carolina taxpayers will wait longer for their tax refunds, Secretary of Revenue Kenneth Lay said Thursday.
The state is not issuing refund checks to taxpayers as quickly as planned because the recession has state revenue flowing in slower than usual, Lay said.
“We have a temporary backlog due to the fact that we’re having difficulty garnering funds that we’re using to manage cash flow,” he said.
Taxpayers are supposed to have sympathy for the government bureaucracy and let them off the hook. Like sheep, most will just shrug. That’s why they can so blithely announce such an outrage. The revolutionary spirit that birthed this nation is dead. We need it back.
